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  • 1.  Meme Machine

    Posted 05-07-1999 01:09
    >Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:14:36 +0000
    >From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ESTEBAN_TREVI=D1O_MUGUERZA?= <esteban@CEMEX.COM>
    >Subject: "The Meme Machine"
    >
    >Has anyone read the book "The Meme Machine" by Susan J. Blackmore, Richard
    >Dawkins
    >(Hard cover - 272 pages (April 1999) Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0198503652 ;
    >Dimensions (in inches): 0.93 x 9.59 x 6.44)
    >
    >The ideas in the reviews of the book and several threads I followed on
    >"meme" nugged me to post this. There could be worthwhile implications for
    >management both in practice and in academia. Is this a book worth reading?
    >
    >Saludos Esteban

    The subject is very worthwhile and the book is better than average.
    Two reasons for understanding and mastering memes --
    1) insight into one of major the attractors of communities, thus a key
    technique for those who would be leaders/managers,
    2) insight into one of the major methods of forming cults or being a
    charismatic type of leader, thus something you should understand so you can
    guard against such behavior.

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